10/11/2009

Twiddleybitz memory box and a tag and goals

I bought a little 3d 'naked' box by Twiddleybitz and decided to play around with inks and things the other night. I was reading something Tim Holtz was doing and it gave me the idea to use perfect pearls powder that he had mixed in a mini mister with water. So of course I hadn't got the mini mister so I dropped a bit of the powder onto a craft sheet and sprayed some water on it. It worked ok and I painted the box and insides with it. I then stamped it with a Hero Arts tree stamp which I now seem to use all the time, it was one that Leonie and Carley used at the workshop.Then I did the same with the butterflies and gold perfect pearls and stuck them on. The little blue butterfly was an acrylic stamp which I stamped onto grungeboard and then painted with watered distress ink. I have a lovely photo of my mum when she was young inside and the box is going to sit in front of me on my shelf. I made a tag too with some spritzy perfect pearls again and some stamps (the owl is a Dawn Bibby one ) and the flowers at the top are Wendy Vecchi. Yep, I used the tree stamp again to go round the edges !

The other thing today, in Shimelle's class was to think about goals..hmmmm well I would have said a few months ago that was to have a craft room. I think that mainly now the boys have gone, I would like to have time to cook nice meals again in the evenings instead of always being in a rush as one boy would be going out and one coming in - so it would be nice to get some recipe books out again. Also to try and improve my photography too ...